We are looking for a highly motivated, outgoing, customer centric senior sales executive/sales executive to join our hard working and high performing team in a busy, and dynamic work environment. You will be working across our Imbibe portfolio selling digital advertising and lead generation packages. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing new business, managing and upselling existing accounts, selling the wider Imbibe portfolio including webinars, virtual events etc. as well as promoting other opportunities offered by the Imbibe portfolio team. You will predominately be working on our Imbibe title which is a James Beard award-winning magazine and website which celebrate drinks as a distinct culinary category, deserving in-depth exploration of the people, places, cultures and flavours surrounding beverages around the world.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop an understanding of the drinks market, its vendors and needs.

Build long-term relationships with customers, understanding their businesses and marketing needs, and be seen as part of the industry.

Ability to sell senior level prospects and customers, keeping a good balance between face-to-face and telephone selling to achieve new business and increase revenues from existing customers.

Keep a schedule and financial tracker up to date in conjunction with the Portfolio Sales Manager

A self-motivated individual with a determined, mature approach and prepared to go that extra mile to achieve/exceed sales targets.

About the Company

Reed Exhibitions is the world’s leading events business, enhancing the power of face to face through data and digital tools. Every year we run over 500 events in 30 countries, bringing together over 7 million event participants worldwide. With 4000 employees we serve 43 industries in 38 offices around the globe. Reed Exhibitions is part of RELX Group. RELX Group is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America.

Interested? If this position interests you or you know someone it would, please send written applications to recruitment@reedexpo.co.uk with a covering letter and your salary expectations.

Due to the large volume of applications, we are unable to respond to all applications individually. Therefore, if you are not contacted by the company within the next three weeks, we regret to advise that your application has been unsuccessful.

WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING CV’S FROM AGENCIES. THEREFORE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS POSITION PLEASE APPLY DIRECTLY TO US OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE AND APPLY ONLINE.

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